Friday, September 21, 2012

The Third Man in America's Presidential Election

You might have thought the contest was between Obama and Romney. Wrong. It's actually between Obama, on one side, and Romney and Israeli thug Benjamin Netanyahu on the other.

Netanyahu has abjectly failed at pressuring Obama into attacking Iran. Romney, it seems, doesn't share Obama's qualms and is therefore Netanyahu's BFF. It's a high stakes gambit but, if Obama wins, it could rewrite America's relationship with Israel.

Israel’s blow-hard right-wing prime minister, the US-raised zionist
Benjamin Netanyahu, openly trying to topple Obama, has propelled Israel
directly into US politics, and has also been trying to push the US into
a war against Iran, and he’s been doing all this in a manner so clumsy
and overt that he may have fundamentally undermined the long-standing
“special relationship” between the US and Israel.

It’s difficult to recall a time when an Israeli prime
minister has inserted himself into a presidential election campaign in
the way that Benjamin Netanyahu has. It’s even harder to recall a time
when a trusted ally openly urged the American president to undertake a
questionable, unpopular and highly risky war. We sure hope Netanyahu
knows what he’s doing, because the stakes for him — and for the two
nations he professes to care about the most — could not be higher.

The editorial goes on to note:

He may be overplaying his hand. Americans are deeply wary
of another military involvement in the Muslim world. Most Americans
oppose a military strike against Iran. Most even oppose coming to
Israel’s aid should it be attacked by Iran. A recent poll by the
nonpartisan Chicago Council on Global Affairs posed this hypothetical
situation: Israel attacks Iran, Iran retaliates and and the two nations
go to war. Only “38 percent say the United States should bring its
military forces into the war on the side of Israel. A majority (59%)
says it should not,” the poll showed.

...Obama and the Democrats, increasingly dependent upon the votes of
Latinos and African Americans, younger people, women and left-leaning
people of all races, are recognizing that slavish support of Israel, and
particularly for an Israeli desire to launch a disastrous war against
Iran, are not positions that are likely to win national elections. Polls
show that the American people are tired of endless wars in the Middle
East, as the Daily Forward editorial correctly notes. They are also
troubled when they hear American politicians say that Israel’s policies
are America’s policies.

...If Obama, as looks increasingly likely, manages to win re-election while
continuing to resist Prime Minister Netanyahu’s blistering criticism
and blustering calls for war, the longtime unseemly grip of AIPAC on US
Middle East policy will likely be broken, and with it will go the
influence of the neocons who have been pushing relentlessly for American
imperial domination of the Middle East. Once a presidential candidate
successfully stands up to AIPAC and to Israeli political threats and
succeeds in nonetheless winning election, the lobby’s power to threaten
and intimidate dissolves.

According to the polling data culled between July 1 and
September 10, 70 percent of registered Jewish voters planned to vote for
President Obama. Only 25 percent of voters said they were planning to
vote for Mitt Romney, with 5 percent undecided.

These results indicate a decline from earlier this spring, when 64
percent of registered Jewish voters said they would vote for Obama and
29 percent said they would support his Republican contender.

...The rise in Jewish support for Obama, seems to indicate that American
Jews are less concerned with Israel than might be thought. Accusations
that Romney has been making, such as accusing Obama of "throwing allies like Israel under the bus," and failing to deal with Iran's nuclear program, don't seem to be helping garner Jewish support for the Republican candidate.

With numbers like this, Netanyahu's gambit acquires an air of fear and desperation.

1 comment:

Netanyahu is already an Associate Prime Minister of Canada and now he wants to take over U.S. He is a crazy man.

“Meir Dagan, a former head of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, says that an attack on Iran would be the "stupidest idea [I've] ever heard."

Dogan is retired but having worked for Mossad and having been its head knows something. He has more in depth knowledge & intelligence than Netanyahu. But Netanyahu is stupid enough that he refuses to give up and refuses to listen to calm-headed people.